According to a report by Haaretz, which briefly had access to the camp in besieged northern Gaza, the number is an estimate by the Israeli army.

The Israeli daily said Jabalia refugee camp has become a “ghost town” during the Israeli army’s continuous attacks on the area.

None of the army’s other operations in Lebanon and other parts of Gaza “can compare, in the scale of the destruction, to what has happened over the last two and a half months” in the camp.

According to the army’s data, quoted by Haaretz, some 96,000 Palestinian civilians were forcibly displaced from the densely populated camp during the military’s operation.

The newspaper added, citing the army, that more than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and roughly 1,500 have been arrested in the camp over the same period.

The army claims most of the people killed in the camp were armed, the report also said.